RE: Another post from McLaren

>As I've pointed out in prior posts, the strict
>extreme hard-line Pythagorean viewpoint
>fails when it encounters reality, since
>the 3:5:7 triad demonstrably sounds less
>consonant than the 4:5:6 triad--yet the
>integers of the 3:5:7 triad are obviously
>smaller.

Why are so many things obvious to Brian that are not obvious to the rest of
us?


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Fresh from the press: the homepage of the Richter Herf-Institut fu"r
musikalische Grundlagenforschung in Salzburg.

http://www.moz.ac.at/~herf/index.html

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl

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Topic No. 9

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 10:33 EST
From: PAULE
To: tuning
Subject: RE: Another post from McLaren
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>In fact 19-TET is the most common,
>almost the closest in sound to 12-TET of the "teen"
>temperaments (22-TET is closer), and perhaps the
>easiest to use of the < 20 TET equal temperaments.

I agree completely, except that it's difficult to say that 22-TET is closer.
The standard tonal repertory sounds good - if not better - in 19-TET.
22-TET fails to preserve normal diatonic relationships, and cannot be
notated with the conventional symbols. Performing Bach or Mozart in 19 is
trivial, while getting them to sound good in 22 would be a difficult task.
That doesn't prevent 22 from being my favorite tuning!

I'll give Brian the benefit of the doubt and assume he was concerned stricly
with the sound of consonant triads. 19 and 22 are both much smoother than
12, but 19 is the smoothest. In that sense, 22 is closer than 19 to 12. But
in that sense, 15 is even closer to 12 (15 is slightly less smooth than 12).

Is 22 a teen? Is 24 the first "adult" temperament? If so, I've got two days
to grow up.


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